| Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES Vanderbilt is Trying to Head Oft Gould PARALLELING THE UNION PACIFIC A Scheme that Will Work Irreparable Injury to the Overland Route if Carried Out CHICAGO April 17A story is told hereto here-to day which throws new light on the trip of Cornelius Vanderbilt and party to the far west It has been reported tho party was to meet Jay Gould in Denverfor conference con-ference the object being to arrange a harmonious har-monious combination of interests in working work-ing out the western railroad problem This is denied by parties in a position to obtain inside facts It is said this movement of Vanderbilts is for the purpose of heading off Gould If Gould had attended the meeting meet-ing of the advisory board of tho Western Traffic association this week it was the intention in-tention of President Hughitt of the Northwestern North-western to have had an understanding on the question of division of through rates between be-tween that road and the Union Pacific has been asserted the ten year traffic contract with the Northwestern will be ignored by the Union Pacific Since Mr Gould has obtained control through business has been largely diverted to the Missouri Pacific The Northwestern people are growing indignant in-dignant and when they found Gould had no intention of attending the meeting Hughitt telegraphed tho fact to New York Tho result was that Vanderbilt Depew Rossiter andTwombly immediately started west in a special train It said their object is to reach Denver in advance of Gould and bo first in the field in making preliminary arrangements for carrying out their plans The plans it alleged involve the ultimate extension of tho Northwestern system to Ogden The Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri valley division already reaches Fort Casper and the laying of two hundred or three hundred miles of track in a southwesterly direction will connect it with tho Central Pacific at Ogden When this is done the Northwestern will parallel the Union Pacific Pa-cific its entire length and will possess an immediate advantage in having a Chicago terminus It is said this step was contemplated con-templated for a long time by Vanderbilt interests but the scheme was abandoned when the traffic contract between the Northwestern and Union Pacific was perfected per-fected Now that the contract is a dead I I letter tho Northwestern will delay no longer in establishing itself on an independent footing Should that plan be carried out it can hardly fail to work considerable injury to tho Union Pacific Furthermore Further-more it would limit tho effect of the proposed pro-posed GouldHuntington combination in tho southwest and save the Chicago Northwestern much business that otherwise other-wise would be diverted to other routes |
